Maria Parrini

Pianist Maria Parrini has performed over one thousand concerts of chamber and solo music as part of the Lincoln Center Stage Quintet onboard Holland America cruise ships. Maria enjoys an immersive life in music through free improvisation, historical performance, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Recently she commissioned “UMI” by Amane Sakaguchi and “forgotten music” by Isaiah Saranow, and premiered these works on the 2024 Pan Harmonia concert series in the Carolinas; in 2023 she also made her harpsichord debut with Virtuosi String Ensemble in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Top prizes include the Atlanta Music Club Graduate Piano Award, Thousand Islands International Competition, the Darius Milhaud Performance Prize at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and concerto competitions of Brevard Music Center, Clemson University, and Columbus State University. An alum of Kneisel Hall Chamber Music and the Atlantic Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble, she has performed in masterclasses for legendary teachers such as Natalya Antonova, Matti Raekallio, and Sergei Babayan. Maria holds degrees in piano performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, and will begin DMA coursework and a teaching assistantship with Anton Nel at U.T. Austin- Butler School of Music in Fall 2024.